Just another reason we need decentralization.
Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
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Re: Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
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Their use of ‘advantage’ as a word reminds me of this classic Calvin & Hobbes strip. https://www.languagetrainers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/201... Looks like the 80s/90s kids that were brought up on these skits are finally taking over!
You can also "noun" verbs. One I hear in SV is "an ask". I find myself a bit peeved by it but I don't know why.
Wait until you hear someone noun “solve,” it’s the most infuriating sound to leave a PMs mouth.
I’m hoping we can come to an agreement during this meeting to find the solve.
Would ___ work for this solve?
Re: Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
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The difference is that Walmart didn't build the street or the city and doesn't have a right to take a cut of sales on other people's property. A more apt comparison would be the third-party hotels that, if they want to use some of Disney's 25,000 acres in Florida[0], literally have to lease the land from Disney and Disney can impose terms like a cut of sales (or a forced Disney merchandise store within the hotel). iO…
There are tons of resorts and hotels completely unrelated to Disney that exist right at the gates of Disnyworld that offer shuttles. There are even more resorts in Kissimmee that are just a short drive away. As someone who has been to Disneyworld over a dozen times and never once stayed in a Disney resort, there are a ton of places to stay and still visit Disneyworld.
Most of those resorts lease the land from Disney, https://www.wdwradio.com/2005/02/wdw-history-101-how-to-buy-...
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2019/12/30/disn...
Re: Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
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You can also "noun" verbs. One I hear in SV is "an ask". I find myself a bit peeved by it but I don't know why.
Wait until you hear someone noun “solve,” it’s the most infuriating sound to leave a PMs mouth. I’m hoping we can come to an agreement during this meeting to find the solve. Would ___ work for this solve?
I love that. It's an attempt to look smart when it really only makes you look stupid or pretentious. Or both. Do they not realize that there's already a word for that - solution?
Re: Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
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You can also "noun" verbs. One I hear in SV is "an ask". I find myself a bit peeved by it but I don't know why.
Wait until you hear someone noun “solve,” it’s the most infuriating sound to leave a PMs mouth. I’m hoping we can come to an agreement during this meeting to find the solve. Would ___ work for this solve?
A "solve" is common parlance in puzzling in my experience (ie puzzle hunt). Never used it in my day to day PM role though, agreed it would sound awkward.
Re: Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
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You can also "noun" verbs. One I hear in SV is "an ask". I find myself a bit peeved by it but I don't know why.
“Ask” has had a noun form for as long as I can recall in British English. Phrases like “that’s quite a big ask” and “what’s the ask?” are commonplace IME.
I’ve heard both phrases you mention a lot in American English too.
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I've heard from a friend (in Australia) if you don't frequently buy placement you get bumped, and buying placement can be a losing proposition. They raise the price to squeeze all margin so it's just on the edge of making it affordable. You have to say yes to losing money during the promotion ("you'll make it up with brand awareness!") to claw it back by staying on the shelves in between. Otherwise another brand, or…
Does shelf height play that big of a roll in sales?
Oh absolutely, especially because Australian grocery stores tend to be denser and stock less products. Especially the new "Metro" style of stores.
In these formats, you pay for placement or they don't stock you.
Re: Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
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You can also "noun" verbs. One I hear in SV is "an ask". I find myself a bit peeved by it but I don't know why.
“Ask” has had a noun form for as long as I can recall in British English. Phrases like “that’s quite a big ask” and “what’s the ask?” are commonplace IME.
Just out of curiosity, I looked it up in an American dictionary and it does have a noun form over here, as well, but it's noted as "chiefly British, informal".
Although, the term "big ask" is something I'm certain I've used before, as well as others, but more in a business/corporate context.
Or maybe I've just watched a lot of British television?
Re: Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
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I'm a little conflicted who to believe. But it sounds like there are specific keywords an app developer can specify for their apps that signals to the App Store search what to rank for (kind of like having keywords on your website tells Google what your page is about). From my understanding Apple manually put "Dropbox" as one of the keywords and that is what they removed. If other app developers can put in keywords l…
Apple's explanation makes perfect sense. They didn't manually put "Dropbox" as one of the keyboards, but the integration of Dropbox with Files results in "Dropbox" being automatically added to the metadata of the Files app, and the metadata automatically gets indexed by the search system
That's not manual though, it sounded like somewhere along the way somebody manually added the word Dropbox to the app's keywords
Re: Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
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Possibly. Could be negligence if they're not already testing for such cases. Or could be they boosted their own app intentionally.
I’m curious, what hypothetical scenario do you imagine where Apple got any real world benefit from having files appear above Dropbox when searching for “dropbox”? Setting aside whether Files is a competitor (which I’m honestly not sure it is) I would imagine that at least 99% of the time, a person searching for a specific product by name isn’t in a mind space to be conquered by a competitor.
You asked for a hypothetical scenario so I'll give you one. User starts using Files instead of Dropbox to view their file that are stored in the cloud on Dropbox.
Apple wants to drive up iCloud usage so they add a one time prompt into their Files app asking if users want to upgrade their iCloud storage. It's not a massive deal on it's own but this would take users away from Dropbox and Dropbox has no recourse to convince the user otherwise because users are accessing Dropbox through Files (since that's the #1 ranked app they downloaded instead of Dropbox).